HOLY CRAP! TORNADOS IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO!

Mary

I just got a call from a friend of mine who was driving his 2 year old son back to his mothers' house near Woodstock, Ontario. The sky was fine when he left his house, but within a couple of minutes, a tornado hit and he got caught in the tail end of it. The wind picked up his truck (with him and the baby in it) and threw it in the ditch. They were shaken but not injured thank God! A woman went by and said "quick! get in here and let's get the hell out of here!" So he got the baby out and they went to his parents' place.

Get this: he called the cops to tell them what happened and you know what the cops' response was? "...I'm not helping you out of the ditch---what were you doing driving in this weather?" My friend was stunned and said " It was sunny out when I left the house!" I told him to get that idiot's name and badge number and report him.

The sky has turned black again and it looks like we're in for another round........So I'm logging off for now......

Gopher

Sorry to hear about that frightening episode. I'm glad your friend and the baby got out alive.

Tornadoes can come unexpectedly. Three weeks ago there was a violent tornado in Hugo, Minnesota about 20 miles north of where I live. While that tornado was ripping apart that small own, I was at a Target store near my house shopping. Where I was, there was no rain and only a light breeze The change was that intense in a short distance.

An automobile is a very bad place to be during a tornado. You cannot outrun a tornado, and these monsters can pick up a car and throw them a long ways. What people need to do is find a solid structure to hide in, or at least get face down in a ditch until the storm passes over.

changeling

Stay safe and let us know when the danger has passed.

changeling

JK666

Seek shelter quickly, and let us know you are alright after it passes. It's my turn to light a candle . . .

JK

dinah

Mary, I'm thinking if you stood up to a tornado, it would run away from you licking its wounds.

Be safe.

Lady Lee

I was listening to a reprt on the news the other day that said lower Manitoba and southern and western Ontario can expect more tornados than usual this year. Manitoba does get a few but it certainly has increased.

dinah

Lady Lee,

In Alabama we dodge them constantly!! If we ever get a thunderstorm, we start watching the clouds.

Midget-Sasquatch

Yeah, that warning was to cover from Windsor to Toronto and I'm about in between. I stayed off the computer last night because there was some lightning and I already lost a computer once to a storm. Actually two, but the other one was garbage anyway. The heavy rain stopped fairly quickly though but I just got into the book I was reading.

hamsterbait

I was in the Hills of Eastern France a couple of years ago. Gorgeous day. No breeze, then suddenly the wind grew and grew.

The lands nearby had two or three tornadoes, which ruined all the fruit crops. Strange to get tornadoes in that kind of terrain.

HB

New light for you

we're in NC,about a week ago it was sunny and 90, within 5 minutes we had insaine rain and HAIL!!!! it only lasted 5-10 min, then back to sunny. When we went outside, the neighborhood was turned upside down, trees down , uprooted and down everywhere. my girlfriend in the next neighborhood over had nothing. they never said it was a tornado, just probably a "downburst"

HOLY CRAP! TORNADOS IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO!

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